Selfish interests? Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't aware RMN pays a stipend to developers who have the most blogs >_>

author=alterego
Uh? ...I'd argue that pushing down someone else's blog because you feel the need to make two (crappy) posts in a row IS selfish.

Who are you to decide what is crappy and what isn't? You know what.. don't answer. This is just causing needless strife and DDG has decided to keep one public and keep the rest in PMs, now you've gotten your own way - so stop throwing a paddy and slink off back to your own corner. Honestly, I'll never understand some people, I just won't.

@DDG

That's fine mate, I'll send any issues and bug reports via PM ... or the messier but faster solution would be to consolidate public/private and post them in the same place though, as you imagined, it would be a pain sorting out which issues are which.

Aye, that's understandable, not only because this one is taking longer than the last but simply because of the sheer amount of work that is involved in comparison to FFMQ. Both games are light years apart in complexity :D My apologies for dragging out any drama, I just think it's ridiculous to complain about a BLOG of all things and to call someone selfish after putting countless hours into creating a free game for everyone to play is just... well it's abhorrent to me.

In the end it's a silly and pointless argument, all that matters is the game and being able to efficiently deal with reports from private and public testers. Hell, to save a lot more trouble and micromanagement you could just as easily have a SINGLE test version of the game. Get to a certain milestone, compile, release as the next "demo" and do that. Work in chunks. That would save the headache of constantly uploading revision after revision, one locked off module for the public and one "daily" source for the private testers. Bundle everyone together, deal with the same reports from the same segments of games, rather than scattered reports from varying parts.

Okay! I just finished the demo play after 1hr and 56 minutes with party levels 23/13/13/13 and here is my feedback;


-glitches-


*I have the full K-Lite Codec Pack installed yet the game still required me to install your XviD codec before the opening movies would play. That's a little bizarre :D
*Opening intro, in the Crystal Room of Mysidia, the tiles are out of alignment and the crystal only appears when Cecil steps near it.
*Music fades out and back again instead of seamless looping as in original game(s)
*Music sometimes restarts on scene change instead of continuing.
*Sleeping in beds has visual issues, party members have their heads cut off and sleep further down the bed - NPCs seem to sleep higher higher the bed tile.
*Chests "jump" when opened. Unsure if this is deliberate or a side-effect of the animation.
*Characters freezes in place after doing the victory jump/spin animation. Sometimes only Cecil performs the victory animation.
*Tent can be used in dungeons/towns/etc, not just on the world map. Animation/event is only shown on the world map and savepoints as normal.
*Selecting multiple allies/enemies can sometimes be glitchy. Example; sometimes Tellah's Cure spell actually cures the ENEMY despite clearly targetting all Allies and Rydia's Cure spell cures allies instead of the targetted Undead enemies. It's rare but does happen from time to time and only happens when using "all" selection.
*Allies always have the ability to see enemy HP, unsure if glitch or intentional - but it's good nonetheless! :P
*Can't select all allies outside of battle, making healing/curing 3-4x more expensive.
*Wooden Arrows cost 7500GP??
*Load Game dialogue doesn't display the character levels correctly. I'm currently Lv23/13/13/13 with Cecil/Rosa/Edward/Rydia, yet the load dialogue shows Lv10/13/6/1.. heh.
*Critical crash upon loading a save game after dying in battle during the same gaming session;



This also happens from time to time if you just F12/reset back to the title screen and try to load a save game.


-suggestions-

*Adding a cloud layer under the airship during the intro would go a long way to eliminating some of the left-over RPGMaker feel, same as when flying the airship normally.
*The dancers in various cities and towns just spin around in a circle - perhaps making them jump around a bit instead?
*Possible add the series-staple Magic/Summon cast animations?
*Perhaps cast some shadows under the Baron Fleet that bombards Damcyan?
*This FFIV is magnitudes larger than FFMQ, may I humbly BEG that you DON'T change anything so critical as to invalidate previous save files? Losing a 20hr save game would be.... umm... less than fun :P


"You spoony bard!" ---- Weeee! <3 I had a blast with this, the mapping is faithful (if a little "square" sometimes, mostly due to the tendency of RPGMaker to be square) and the game felt just like FFIV. I have no real complaints at this time. Keep up the awesome work, Jake! I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

I also had a critical crash during the walkthrough the water cavern, I tried to use an Ether on Rydia and the game crashed with a null error. I apologise for not snapping the error message when it was there, I automatically hit enter as a matter of course :(

I don't know, but I can't really like the remakes that SE makes, yet yours is just great. Maybe it's because how you somewhat tweak boss battles and such?